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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Edward Hugh Sothern, oldtime Shakespearean trouper with his wife Julia Marlowe, spoke in Chicago about the U. S. stage. Said he: "Fifty years ago we led the world in stock companies of fine standards. Now we are in lewd and vulgar depths for the most part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Balls. President John Heydler of the National League said that home-runs in his league dropped off 45% when umpires roughened the dead white, glossy balls with dirt. He suggested that if manufacturers left the leather covers unfinished instead of polishing them, pitchers would be able to handle the ball better, batters would not be able to see it so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Jack Dempsey. Discussing people who got in on passes, Judge Landis said severely: "Jack Dempsey had no business in the press box at the last world series game in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...skeptical," said he. "There are some people so ignorant they still believe that Noah crowded two of each species of animals into the Ark. . . . here are others who think that Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale. ... I have studied two kinds of whales, and found that it is impossible for either of them to swallow a man whole, and anyway, no man could live inside a whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Noah, Jonah & Howard College | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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